And lets not forget MAD (Michigan Algorithm Decoder) running on IBM 709=20 (vacuum tubes) and 7090 (solid state) in the early 1960's. It helped a=20 lot to have Alfred E. Newman's picture on the cover. :) Then in the mid=20 1970's there was Basic running on a Univac 1108. > FOSS definitely helped C a lot, even before it was called that. First > there was the portable C compiler, which lasted through the late > 1980s. Then there was gcc. > > BillW > > =20 --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .